Tim Carey, MD, MPH

Tim Carey, MD, MPH, is director of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and a Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Social Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine. Dr. Carey’s research interests focus on evidence-based medicine, access to care, health disparities, and medical outcomes, with several research projects examining technology assessment. He teaches at both the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health on Evaluation of Medical and Epidemiologic Literature and Health Care Epidemiology. Dr. Carey earned his MD from the University of Vermont, trained in internal medicine at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, practiced rural medicine in Kentucky, and then came to Chapel Hill as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, where he earned his MPH. Prior to becoming director of the Sheps Center, Dr. Carey was chief of the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at the UNC School of Medicine.